Strategic Initiative


Palais de Tokyo
$250,000
Paris, France
2024

The Palais de Tokyo, the largest European art center dedicated to contemporary creation, has invited Naomi Beckwith, Deputy Director and Chief Curator, Guggenheim Museum, to be guest artistic director for an American Season in fall 2025. The American Season exhibitions and programs provide opportunities for the Palais de Tokyo to continue its work with diverse groups of artists and audiences and to introduce U.S. contemporary art to French audiences.

The Brooklyn Rail
$125,000
Brooklyn, NY
2024

To support a final year of “The New Social Environment” as the program reaches its 1000th installment and the Brooklyn Rail celebrates its 25th year. This is a daily virtual conversation series in which thinkers from across the arts, humanities, and sciences engage in accessible and diverse conversations about the role of art and artists in society. The conversations, which include audience participation, are recorded and archived on YouTube where they are freely accessible to the public.

Arts Foundation of Kosciusko
$30,000
Kosciusko, MS
2024

To support the processing and installation of the L.V. Hull Archives—materials and ephemera from the life of self-taught artist L.V. Hull (American,1942–2008). Once processed, these materials will be made accessible to community members, residency participants, curators, students, and the general public at the forthcoming L.V. Hull Legacy Center. The L.V. Hull Legacy Center is a visual arts facility in Kosciusko, Mississippi, anchored by Hull’s home, which was recently listed as nationally significant on the National Register of Historic Places and was the studio for her prolific creative practice. The archive will be formally installed at the Legacy Center by October 2025, and archival material will be accessible to curators working on a two-part exhibition that will open at the L.V. Hull Legacy Center and the Mississippi Museum of Art in early 2026, which will include an accompanying catalog, the first major publication about Hull. Once open, the Legacy Center will serve the public through displays of Hull’s work, rotating exhibitions, a creative residency, and free public programming.

National Museum of Mexican Art
$5,000
Chicago, IL
2024

The award helps cover expenses for the National Museum of Mexican Art’s (NMMA) Advancing Latinx Art in Museums (ALAM) curator, a position supported by the foundation. This grant supplements the foundation’s $495,000 grant to NMMA, which has allowed the museum to participate in ALAM, a multi-year initiative launched by the Mellon, Ford, and Getty foundations to bolster the field of Latinx art and to formalize curatorial positions focused on Latinx art at ten cultural organizations across the U.S. ALAM funders are providing travel and hotel stipends for ALAM curators to convene in New York City in 2024.

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
$25,000
Los Angeles, CA
2024

The 2024 CIMAM (International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art) Annual Conference addresses the relationship of museums to the climate crisis, to financial and funding issues, and to racial and social justice, in the attempt to create new possibilities and intellectual and sociological frameworks guiding the way museums should function. The conference focuses on museum and cultural practitioners who are transforming the field and radically questioning the intersection of practice, social change, and art history, as well as re-imagining what museums can be as agents of transformation and evolution. The conference aims to position LA as a Pan-American city, and a Transpacific city, shaped by histories of migration and communities from Latin America and across the Pacific that have contributed to the rich and heterogeneous makeup of LA, along with its dynamism as an art capital of the twenty-first century.

University of Maryland
$120,000
College Park, MD
2024

The Weusi Art Collective Archive continues the work of the David C. Driskell Center in systematically supporting and celebrating the work of modern and contemporary Black artists. The acquisition of the papers of Ronald (Okoe) Pyatt expands knowledge of the Weusi Art Collective, a Harlem-based collective rooted in the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, making their contributions available for study and research. Over the course of three years, staff at the Driskell Center will transfer, process, digitize, and catalog the papers of Ronald (Okoe) Pyatt and conduct oral histories with Pyatt’s widow, Shelley Inniss, and other surviving members of the Weusi Collective including Dingda McCannon, Otto Neals, and Ademola Olugbefula. This work culminates in a Study Day in fall 2026 at the Driskell Center, involving living members of the Weusi Collective and three guest researchers, who will present and discuss scholarly papers on the Weusi Art Collective’s contributions and significance. The oral histories and the papers from the Study Day will be published in spring 2027, in what will be the first critical and sustained engagement with Weusi Collective archival materials. The book, edited by Dr. Jordana Saggese, will be available in open-access print and online formats.

Palais de Tokyo
$98,000
Paris, France
2024

This grant to four of eight national Parisian art institutions supports the first multi-museum celebration to be presented in the city in honor of a single artist in their lifetime: the sculptor, draftswoman, and author Barbara Chase-Riboud. Centre Pompidou, Musée d’Orsay, Musée du Louvre, Musée du Quai Branly, Musée Guimet, Musée Picasso, Palais de la Porte Dorée, Palais de Tokyo, and Philharmonie de Paris each present a specific series of Chase Riboud’s works in conversation with their permanent collections and temporary exhibitions, creating dialogues with art and artists such as the ancient Egyptian and Greek sculptors, Benin bronzes, Constantin Brancusi, Auguste Rodin, Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti, Lee Bontecou, and Louise Bourgeois. An English- and French- language catalogue co-published by the Louvre accompanies the exhibitions.

Musée d’Orsay
$47,000
Paris, France
2024

This grant to four of eight national Parisian art institutions supports the first multi-museum celebration to be presented in the city in honor of a single artist in their lifetime: the sculptor, draftswoman, and author Barbara Chase-Riboud. Centre Pompidou, Musée d’Orsay, Musée du Louvre, Musée du Quai Branly, Musée Guimet, Musée Picasso, Palais de la Porte Dorée, Palais de Tokyo, and Philharmonie de Paris each present a specific series of Chase Riboud’s works in conversation with their permanent collections and temporary exhibitions, creating dialogues with art and artists such as the ancient Egyptian and Greek sculptors, Benin bronzes, Constantin Brancusi, Auguste Rodin, Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti, Lee Bontecou, and Louise Bourgeois. An English- and French-language catalogue co-published by the Louvre accompanies the exhibitions.

Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac
$33,000
Paris, France
2024

This grant to four of eight national Parisian art institutions supports the first multi-museum celebration to be presented in the city in honor of a single artist in their lifetime: the sculptor, draftswoman, and author Barbara Chase-Riboud. Centre Pompidou, Musée d’Orsay, Musée du Louvre, Musée du Quai Branly, Musée Guimet, Musée Picasso, Palais de la Porte Dorée, Palais de Tokyo, and Philharmonie de Paris each present a specific series of Chase Riboud’s works in conversation with their permanent collections and temporary exhibitions, creating dialogues with art and artists such as the ancient Egyptian and Greek sculptors, Benin bronzes, Constantin Brancusi, Auguste Rodin, Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti, Lee Bontecou, and Louise Bourgeois. An English- and French-language catalogue co-published by the Louvre accompanies the exhibitions.

Musée du Louvre
$22,000
Paris, France
2024

This grant to four of eight national Parisian art institutions supports the first multi-museum celebration to be presented in the city in honor of a single artist in their lifetime: the sculptor, draftswoman, and author Barbara Chase-Riboud. Centre Pompidou, Musée d’Orsay, Musée du Louvre, Musée du Quai Branly, Musée Guimet, Musée Picasso, Palais de la Porte Dorée, Palais de Tokyo, and Philharmonie de Paris each present a specific series of Chase Riboud’s works in conversation with their permanent collections and temporary exhibitions, creating dialogues with art and artists such as the ancient Egyptian and Greek sculptors, Benin bronzes, Constantin Brancusi, Auguste Rodin, Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti, Lee Bontecou, and Louise Bourgeois. An English- and French-language catalogue co-published by the Louvre accompanies the exhibitions.

Samdani Art Foundation
$50,000
Dhaka, Bangladesh
2024

To support Open Forms at the Dhaka Art Summit 2026. Inspired by non-Western forms of gathering and sharing knowledge, Open Forms invites artists and thinkers from the U.S., Bangladesh, and other parts of the world to develop creative interventions as convenings. Open Forms engages its diverse and global audiences to consider new ways of creating togetherness and to imagine more inclusive futures. Inspired by “Tondra,” the theme of the 2026 Dhaka Art Summit that, in Bangla, refers to a state of being where reality and dreams collide, the summit’s panel discussions, workshops, group activities on various scales, communal meals, and karaoke sessions open up new forms of collaboration.

Forge Project
$550,000
Taghkanic, NY
2024

Forge Project’s editorial and publishing initiatives, including a new yearlong cohort program for Native writers through Forging, a digital-first journal that features long-form essays, cultural criticism, and reviews that elevate Indigenous voices and challenge settler colonial narratives; and to support the completion of the first published reader on Native contemporary art.